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6/11/2015

Two exhibitions

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

Nairy Baghramian
Hand me down

The sculptural works of Berlin artist Nairy Baghramian (b. Isfahan, 1971) typically address the conditions of their own making, their physical and extended contexts and a nexus of referential resonances. The solo exhibition Hand Me Down alludes to gifted 2nd hand clothes as a metaphor for the contradictory received canon of contemporary sculpture since minimalism. The artist offers a ‘body of work’ that has been separated into abstracted, constituent parts: here the cutouts, hollow shell, there the denuded skeleton sketched as intersecting steel lines and elsewhere the enlarged hanging organs. The architecture of the Museo Tamayo acts as both host and foil, its visitors the muses.

Her works have been featured in internationally acclaimed solo and group shows, including: Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival (2015); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2014); Museum Serralves, Porto (2014); Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (2013); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); Serpentine Gallery, London (2010) ; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2008); Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2008); Kunstverein, Nürnberg (2007); Kunsthalle Basel (2006). Baghramian also participated in in in the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014) ‘Illuminations’ for the 54th Venice Biennale, (2011); in Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2011); in the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008); and in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007). In 2015 Baghramian received the Arnold-Bode-Preis and the Hector Kunstpreis award (2012).in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007). In 2015 Baghramian received the Arnold-Bode-Preis and the Hector Kunstpreis award (2012).

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Heinz Peter Knes
Intimation allover/ insinuación expandida

Focusing on portraiture, Heinz Peter Knes (b. Germany, 1969) began his photographic career in the late 90s with images that clearly, and in retrospective, project a particular interest in personal narratives and the biographic. The images that Knes himself selected for this exhibition exist as a consequence of different roles and fields in which he has made incursions throughout different periods of his professional life.

For his exhibition at Museo Tamayo, intimation allover, the artist casts aside categories or genre conventions in photography—landscape, portraiture, still life, documentation on travels—so as to privilege, instead, ways of understanding the complexity of constructed compositions within a vast production, by means of subtle decisions in relation to distribution, hanging and display itself. Parallel to this, Knes has continuously reexamined photographic production techniques, achieving in such way a larger conversation with the historic tradition of this medium.

The photographs in this exhibition are shared in their elemental form: decontextualized from a larger narrative that exceeds them, which allows for them to accumulate sense and strength in themselves, just as in the interrelation they play with and against the classic conventions of presentation and sequence.

Heinz Peter Knes (b. Germany, 1969. Lives and works in Berlin). He has exhibited in solo and group shows in The Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2015); Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto (2013); Galerie für Moderne Fotografie, Berlin (2010); and Galerie September, Berlin (2008). He has published the books: on distance (Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2015); I-M-U U-R-2 (Galerie Buchholz, 2013); Tell It To My Heart (Hatje Cantz, 2013); and Hannah Arendt's Library (2013).

Image: Heinz Peter Knes

Press contact:
Amanda Echeverria amanda@museotamayo.org - prensa@museotamayo.org

Museo Tamayo
Paseo de la Reforma No. 51 / esq. Gandhi
Col. Bosque de Chapultepec, Del. Miguel Hidalgo, C.P. 11580 First Section of Chapultepec Park.
Hours:
Tuesday — Sunday 10:00 am — 6:00 pm
Admission:
$21.00 pesos Free for students, professors and elderly (+60) with a valid I.D. Free on Sundays

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